Road work hassles mean new water pipes

Bryce Alderton

Drivers in Huntington Beach will see more hard hats and yellow

tractors along city roads in the coming months as crews replace aging

water pipes.

Water mains are currently being replaced at five different locations

throughout the city: Yorktown Avenue from Beach Boulevard to Delaware

Street, 17th Street from Palm Street to Utica Avenue, Adams Avenue from

17th Street to Huntington Street, along an alley between 12th and 13th

streets and an alley east of Huntington Street, said Sudi Shoja, a city

engineer.

“These are aged [water] mains in need of replacement,” she said.

Work began on the Yorktown pipeline on Feb. 4 and has left the road

gouged with ditches as crews from R.J. Noble Company work to put in the

pipeline that is 12 inches wide in diameter.

One lane will remain open in the north and southbound lanes at all

times, but will vary depending on what part of the street crews are

working on, Shoja said.

Crews will repave the street and begin repairing portions of the

sidewalk, curbs and gutters along Yorktown Avenue once the pipeline is in

place, she said.

The project is expected to be completed by April and will cost

$465,000, she said.

Replacing water mains at the other four locations also began Feb. 4

and is expected to take six months to complete.

Work at all four locations will cost the city a total of $1.28

million, Shoja said.

* BRYCE ALDERTON is the news assistant. He can be reached at (714)

965-7173 or by e-mail at bryce.alderton@latimes.com